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GRAND-PAPPY OF THEM ALL 

 "Sustained interest in the Farm Bureau Baseball League led to 

 the Illinois Farm Sports Festival." DeKalb is the '38 league champ. 



SPORTS FESTIVAL *a» 



FANCY FLIPPER 

 Right: Shapely luanita McAlister, Vermilion county, won the 

 girls' diving title, first in the SO-yard swim. Ten counties were repre- 

 sented in aquatic events. 



SKEETER 

 Ora Keele. DeKalb county, broke 24 targets in 25 which wasn't 

 enough to win the skeet shoot. Twenty gunners shot trap, nine shot 

 skeet. 



BROADCASTERS 

 Stay-at-homes heard the highlights 

 of the Sportsfest when Claire Hull. 

 WDZ. (left) and Farmer Bill. WMBD. 

 put them on the air. 



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CHICKEN CATCHERS 

 Johnny Richardson, Chica- 

 go, and Tommy Cunningham. 

 Champaign county, proudly 

 show Frank Gingrich their 

 birds. 



RADIO REPORTERS 

 Left: George Biggar and 

 George Menard (with 

 "mike"). Prairie Farmer-WLS, 

 and Chet Becker, Illinois Farm 

 Supply Company, describe 

 events for radio listeners. 



FiSTIC ARTISTS 

 Harry Neville, Saline county farm adviser, and Leslie 

 Drake of the lAA auto insurance company, mix it at the 

 lAA-Farm Advisers softball game. Police were called to 

 end the "fight. " 



Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Urf 

 tied with Mr. and Mrs. O 

 in the largest Farm Burea 



FAMILY MAN 

 cr and their nine children of Jasper county 



F. Davis and their nine of Edgar county 

 u family contest. 



